housemaster
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈhaʊsˌmɑːstə/
- UK
:
jefe de casa
- Every evening, the housemaster checks in to ensure all the boys are settling down for the night.
- one of the housemasters
Examples
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Rupert Cadell, he was our housemaster at prep school.
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Who's your housemaster?
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I must have a word with the Housemaster.
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As housemaster, I run this wing.
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That was when the housemaster found me and put me into detention, which is what I had expected.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'd like to see the housemaster.
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Is the Housemaster really going to ask Fowler to stay on?
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Are you sure that's not a matter for you to take up with your housemaster?
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One of the housemasters at my boarding school had written it.
Academic text (2015) -
One was the housemaster of the boys' hostels, H. E. Ntsanwisi, a small white-haired man, strict but kind, who often lectured the boys in the dining hall after meals.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
A woman who looks after students and keeps order in a boarding house
A man who cares for children at a boarding school or orphanage
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Housemaster comes from the two simple parts house and master, where house means 'home' and master means 'person in charge', like in headmaster. So a housemaster is a teacher who looks after and manages a school's boarding house.